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Thermodynamics, Weeds and Education
This morning when I was out mowing the grass, I noticed that a dogwood tree that we have had in front of our house for almost 20 years had a mess of weeds growing under it. My wife normally does the weeding and she had done so last week. The weeds, like other weeds, were hard to differentiate from the tree. The dogwood is not the flowering type, in fact it is a dogwood bush that over the years we…
Jubilacion
I’ve studied Spanish on and off for the better part of my life. At this point, I’ve pretty much given up on ever being fluent without actually living in a Spanish-speaking country for a while. But here’s something I love: jubilación is one of my favorite words in Spanish. In English, it means ‘retirement.’ If you look up synonyms for ‘retirement,’ you’ll find hopeless words like withdrawal,…
Change Your Algorithm
For several years I did an annual post on my birthday. This year I turned 58. On September 16th one of my best friends from high school would have been 58 as well. He passed away in April of this year. We became friends in third grade – 1975. We were friends all through college and were roommates for a couple of years. I moved away from home and so did he. We started families and created our own…
Sometimes You Gotta Cry
A few weeks ago, I asked in a Facebook post for people to suggest ‘The Saddest Song Ever Written.’ It had been an ongoing debate between my friend and I – me a staunch supporter of ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ and him just as committed to ‘Seven Spanish Angels.’ Both sad enough to make a grown man cry. After I had that post up for a while and people kept adding their favorite tearjerkers, the…
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What's Your Why? The Trail Run Edition
What’s Your Why? The Trail Run Edition
You can do a quick search for ‘Finding Your Why’ and come up with over 6 billion hits! It’s one of the more recent business motivational tools. It comes from Simon Sinek (he gets less that 7 million hits) and his book ‘Start With Why‘ and his TED Talk. Apparently many others have jumped on this bandwagon to get it up to that many hits (that’s pretty scientific, right?). ‘Your Why’ is about the…
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One More Loop
If you follow me on social media, you know that I have recently gotten in to trail running. It’s a fun mixture of two things that I have enjoyed for many years: running and hiking. One of the side benefits of trail running has been a lot of thinking and reflecting. As has been my habit, I think and reflect and never get to the computer to blog about it. The following has been bouncing around in…
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A Very Covid Christmas
As I age, I realize how important it is to stay positive and find joy in little things. This. This is hard! When I first realized that I needed to be tested on Saturday, I was in denial. Maybe it was a sinus infection. I’d be back to normal in a couple days. The good Doctor nixed that idea on Monday. He was pretty confident I had been infected. On Tuesday I received a positive COVID result.…
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Choose Happy, Be Thankful
Choose Happy, Be Thankful
Thanksgiving has never been one of my favorite holidays. For many people it’s all about the food and I’m not a fan of most of the food (except rolls! Why don’t we eat more rolls?!?!). I used to be a big pumpkin pie eater but, like a lot of things that you ate too much of as a kid, I tired of it after awhile.
Anyway, the one thing that I did enjoy was visiting. Having an extended break to be…
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1 Corinthians 8:2
“If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.”
During my second year as a building principal, one of our teachers committed suicide. A tough thing for any new administrator and school to understand. Following his death, I believed that there are things that we will never understand completely from another’s perspective.
I had this conversation with several…
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Why Not? Why Not Me?
Why Not? Why Not Me?
Around the end of November I was having a conversation with a teacher in our building who is also the musical director for the high school play. She mentioned some casting struggles and I jokingly said I would fill in for any part that she had available. I was joking but it got me thinking. Thinking can be a dangerous activity! Thinking is what pushes you to do things outside of your comfort…
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A New Tribe
Tribes seem to be one of those 2018 things to be a part of. Everybody has a tribe. People are posting about ‘hanging with their tribe’ or ‘a shout out to my tribe.’ Your tribe is your people. The people with whom you have similar interests or goals. Your ‘go to’ group for support, jokes, questions, etc. Recently I had a conversation with a friend that got me thinking about my tribe. Turns out,…
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Phifty - The Birthday Post
Phifty – The Birthday Post
I have traditionally written a birthday post. I started this blog on my 44th birthday, thus the name. I have been consistently inconsistent in my writing over the last six years and, reading through my posts, the blog has gone through many iterations. There were periods when I wrote for the joy and tried to appeal to an audience and times that I wrote out of anger at the system and tried to…
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Education is Hard!
Education is hard! Teaching is hard! That’s got to be the center of my reflection for this week. It’s hard, it’s tiring and it’s not for the weak. I started back to school with a renewed sense of enthusiasm and passion for what I do. I mentioned that in my last post. I felt like I could do anything for our kids. Every Kid. Every Day. No Matter What It Takes. That may sound like a lot but I think…
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NPC17-Reflection
The National Principals Conference in Philly came at the perfect time for me. I recently completed my certification as a superintendent and had been trying to find a central office job. Unsuccesfully. I felt like I wasn’t good enough as I was passed over for two positions and not even considered for several others. Maybe I wasn’t as good as I thought I was. At the last minute I decided to attend…
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Disruption and Capitalization
Recently I began listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, Revisionist History. I’m a little late to the game so I started at the beginning of season 1 and am trying to catch up. Yesterday I listened to two episodes that are part of a three part series on the cost of post secondary education and how poorer Americans fit into the past secondary puzzle: “Carlos Doesn’t Remember” and “Food Fight.”…
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LMGTFY
Ran upon this site today when someone replied to a question on Facebook with a link to the site. I instantly fell in love with the site because of its sarcastic notion. Then my head spun in a different direction and I pondered how LMGTFY reflects the changes that are necessary in education. BTW, if you haven’t figured it out yet, check the link. I get a little tired of rehashing the same old…
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Thank You, Corey
I attended a funeral today. Tough one to say the least. A young man gone at the age of 21. Sadness can not even begin to describe it. His family, his friends, his brothers were crushed. I didn’t know Corey well. He was a friend of my daughter’s. I knew him as a high school athlete and had seen him around the gym after he graduated. He was a close friend of my daughter but more so after the…
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